As a teenager, he joined the famed French Foreign Legion. After Russia launched its full-scale invasion ... Photo: Joshua Olley “We were a sniper group attached to an anti-tank company,” he says. “We ...

The French Foreign Legion: once infamous, now fighting a new battle. In French Guiana’s rainforest, they’re tracking illegal gold miners destroying nature. DW joined them on their mission.

The French Foreign Legion is regarded as the toughest army corps in the world. Its soldiers fight on the frontlines of France's wars. In the past, the legionnaires, who come from all over the ...

Created specifically for French Special Forces and French Foreign ... Anti-Tank (HEAT), High-Explosive (HE), High-Explosive Plastic/Plasticized (HEP) and White Phosphorous (WP). With two soldiers ...

Soon after, they collaborated with the Separate Presidential Brigade's anti-tank unit and provided combat ... According to a foreign legion fighter, the war feels like "a different war".

Australian Army soldier Sergeant Matthew Reid, of Combat Training Centre's Jungle Training Wing, during the French Foreign Legion Jaguar Course in Kourou, French Guiana. “I had to use my hands ...

The elite military unit will change its focus and take charge of policing the French capital. They will work alongside the police and the rest of the army to ensure the security of the Olympic ...

Foreign soldiers ... French troops, mainly from the Foreign Legion, suffered a setback in Sahelian Africa, namely Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, and were replaced by Russians. A string of coups in the ...

One rumor that spread this week suggested that France had already moved ahead with these plans, deploying secret French Foreign Legion troops ... that any of its soldiers are deployed in or ...

Now the Emirates want their own version of the French Foreign Legion ... "So one solution to this is having a foreign legion." Soldiers in a foreign legion tend to have longer contracts, are ...

The French detachment that participated in the March Past is exclusively from the French Foreign Legion, a well-known ... of the medium-range (MMP) anti- tank missile of the new generation.